This post brought to you by Sara’s game of “Send Me the Most Idaho Picture” while I was visiting in Boise.
I didn’t send her a picture of the Don’t Tread on Me license plate I saw in the wild because I was driving at the time, but I did tell her about it. Then I looked up when that plate had gone into production. Answer: relatively recently.
That sent me down a path of looking at ALL the Idaho plates available, which are many, some of which are pictured here.
I’m from the era when there was one plate: the white and green Famous Potatoes plate. In 1990, we could get the centennial plate, which is what most of the above plate are based on. And that was what you got. I don’t mind that people can pick their plates, and that organizations get a cut, but I do miss the uniformity.
Most interesting discovery: There is a Pearl Harbor Survivor plate available in Idaho. I’m guessing the number of people who have that plate is in the single digits, if not zero. There are only 12 survivors left nationwide.